Automatic feeder for mills.



No. 642,|85. Patented 1an. 30, |900.

J. P. WEHFEH.

AUTDMATIC FEEDER FDR MILLS.

(Application fxled June 13, 1896.)

No. 542,I85. Patented 1an. 30, |900. J. P. WEHRER.

AUTOMATIC FEEDER FUR MILLS.

(Application filed June 13, 1896.) (N0 Windel.)

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No. 642,185. Patented Jan. 30, |900. J. P. WEHRER.

AUTDMATIC FEEDER FDH MILLS.

(Application filed June 13, 1896.) (No ModeL) 3 Sheets- Sheet 3,

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JOHN PETER VEHRER, OF LA GROSSE, VISOONSIN.

AUTOMATIC FEEDER FOR MILLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 642,185, dated January 30, 1900. Application led .lune 13, 1896. Serial No. 595,476. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it muy concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN PETER WEHRER, a citizen of the United States, residing at La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse and State of Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Automatic Feeder for Mills, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automatic feeders for mills which are employed for use in connection with roller-mills or other machines in a flour-mill Where an automatic feed of the stock thereto is necessary.

The main object of this invention is to improve the construction of feeders of this character to reduce the number of working parts, While at the saine time producing a machine capable of providing for an even and regular distribution of the stock to the mills with a slower speed than is possible in similar feeders heretofore patented, and particularly in feeders of the class disclosed in my former patent, No. 535,429. In the accomplishment of these objects the machine further provides for the positive separation of foreign substances-such as bolts, nails, Jzcfrom the stock or flour that is run through the feeder.

The invention is therefore primarily intended in the nature of a radical improvement upon the entire construction and makeup of the machine set forth in my former patent above referred to.

lith these and other objects in View, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view of an automatic feeding machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the machine with one end of the casing removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the vibrating feed-pan removed from the casing. Fig. at is a similar view of the automatic or self-adjusting" regulating-gate. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the back pressureboard for each feed-regulating gate.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, l designates the casing, made in any suitable size and substantially rectangular in form. The casing l is open at its bottom and is adapted to be arranged over a roller iiour or similar mill for the purpose of evenly distributing the stock therethrough, and said rectangular casing is provided at its opposite ends with the glass doors 2, that admit of convenient access to the interior of the casing for the purpose of adjusting the interior mechanism, which is all arranged Within the casing, while at the same time providing for eX- posing to view the automatic feed devices within the casing.

The casing l accommodates for longitudinal vibration therein a longitudinally-reciprocating or vibrating feed-pan 3, which pan 3 has attached rigidly to each of its corners, as at 4, the lower end of a spring-metal hangerstrap 5, the upper end of which spring-metal hanger-strap 5 is secured Within au adjustable supporting-block 6 by means of a clampblock 7, passed transversely through the said block and the upper end of the spring-strap 5 and having its opposite ends Working Within the slots 8 in the angled clamp-plates 9, arranged at each side of the block G and bolted to the inner side of the casing l near the top thereof, said angled clamp-plates 9 forming guides to retain the block 6 properly in position and allowing the same to be readily adj Listed up and down to vary the elevation of the feed-pan. Each of the adjustable supporting-blocks 6 for each hanger-strap 5, at the corners of the feed-pan, has fitted in its upper end a screw-rod ll, Working through a bracket-plate l2, fastened to the inner side of the casing above the clamp-plates 9, and engaged above and below the said bracketplates by the thumb-nuts 13, which provide means for raising and lowering the block for adjustingthefeed-pan. Theadjusting means just described for the longitudinally-vibrating feed are arranged entirely Within the casing, out of the Way, but maybe readily reached through the end doors 2 to provide for readily adjusting the elevation of the feedpan within the casing as may be required, and the spring-metal hanger-straps 5, which suspend the pan from its four corners, allow the latter to freely and uniformly vibrate within the casing when motion is imparted thereto.

To provide for positively vibrating the feedpan within the casing, said pan has rigidly IOO secured to its opposite sides, near one end, the lower ends of the upright shaker-bars 14, which shaker-bars are rigidly braced to the sides of the pan by the inclined brace-rods land project through and work in the top slots 16, formed within the flat top of the casing at opposite sides thereof. The upper ends of the upright shaker-bars 14, above the top of the casing, have adj ustably fitted thereto, as at 17, one end of the spring eccentricpitmen 18, the other ends of which pitmen are provided with the journal-boxes 19, which clamp onto the shaft-eccentrics 2O of the trans verse drive-shaft 21, arranged transversely above the top of the casing at one end and journaled at its opposite ends in the bearing-boxes 22 at the upper ends of the bearing-brackets 23, clamped to the casing at opposite top sides thereof, and said driveshaft 2l has mounted on-one end thereof the belt wheel or pulley 24, which receives a belt to provide for transmitting motion to theseveral Working parts of the feeder. The pitmen 18 are made of suitable spring material, which is necessary in view of their rigid connection at one end to the upper ends of the i vupright shaker-barsHc for the feed-pan, as

will be readily understood by those skilled in the art.

The longitudinally vibrating or swinging feed-pan 3 essentially comprises the opposite parallel pan sides 25, a central transverse upright partition-board 26, connecting the sides 25 intermediate of their ends, and opposite inclined bottom boards 27, which also connect the opposite sides 25 and decline toward the opposite ends of the pan from the central upright partition-board 26. In the present invention the opposite inclined bottom boards 27 of the vibrating feed-pans 3 are provided directly adjacent to the partition-board 26 with the upper feed-board sections 28, which are inclined but slightly from a horizontal plane, while the main portionsof the inclined bottom boards designated by the numeral 27 .are steeply or sharply inclined, so as to provide for a rapid downward feed of the stock with the least possible amplitude of vibration of the feed-pan. tom boards 27 decline sharply from their point of connection with the upper feed-board sections 28 to the lower step extensions 29 at the lower edges of said boards 27, and the lower step extensions 29 of the opposite bottom portions of the feed-pan consist mainly of the depressed transverse ydistributing boards 30, which are arranged in a lower plane than the opposite inclined bottom boards 27 andv are somewhat less sharply inclined than the boards 27, although the boards 27 and 30 are inclined sufficiently to provide for a rapid travel or fall of the stock distributed thereover for feeding to the mill directly under the vibrating feed-pan. The distributing-boards 30 at the opposite ends of the vibrating feedpan'terminate short of the extreme ends of the opposite sides 25 of the pan and have re- The oppositely-inclined botmovably arranged thereover the inclined separating-sieves 31, that form substantial continnations of the inclined bottom boards 27, but are disposed at substantially the same angle of inclination as the depressed distributing-looards 30. The separating-sieves 31 extend from the lower edges of the boards 27 beyond the outer edges of the boards 30 to the extreme outer ends of the pan sides and preferably comprising a parallel series of regularly-spaced sieve-wires 32, secured at their ends to the opposite parallel frame-strips 33,

the inner of which strips is detachably secured by means of screws or bolts, as at 34E, to the vertical wall of the step extension 29, immediately below the lower edges of the boards 27, while the outer of frame-strips 33 ofthe separating-sieves 31 have fitted to their opposite ends the short attaching-plates 35, which removably receive the screws 36 for securing said plates to the oppositeinner sides of the vibrating feed-pan. The manner of mounting the separating-sieves 3l provides for the ready removal and replacing of such sieves whenever necessary. Y

The separating-sieves 3l, extended beyond the lower edges of the opposite inclined bottom boards 27,have the wires thereof arranged sufficiently close to permit the stock or flour to freely pass therethrough, while at the same time serving to separate from such stock nails, screws, or other foreign substances, which are delivered over the outer ends of the sieves by reason of the inclination thereof and the vibration of the feed-pan into the removable end mote-boxes 37. The boxes 37 are disposed directly under the opposite ends of the pan within the casing and are provided with screen-bottoms 3S, so as to receive and hold therein the discharge of foreign substances from the sieves 31, which vibrate thereover, while at the same time allowing the flour and dust to pass through to the rolls of the mill being fed. The boxes 37 are fitted within the ends of the `casing 1, below the end doors 2, and have fitted to their opposite front ends the longitudinally-slotted clamp-plates 39, which take over the clamping-bolts 414-0, mounted in opposite sides of the casing, and which bolts when loosened allow the mote-boxes to be withdrawn from the ends of the casing to be emptied, and after the mote-boxes are replaced and the slotted clamp-plates thereof engaged with said clampbolts 40 the tightening of the latter provides for securing the mote-boxes firmly in place. The opposite inclined bottom boards 27 of the vibrating feed-pans are provided with a regular series of longitudinal corrugations 4l and a multiplicity of short feed-grooves 42, formed in the ridges of the corrugations, to provide, in conjunction with such corrugations, a surface over which the stock will uniformly spread itself while working downward to the sieves 3l and onto the depressed distributing-boards 30. The said distributing-boards 30 are also provided with a series lOO IIC

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of longitudinal wide flat riftles 43, over which the stock spreads itself, so as to have an even, uniform, and regular flow over the lower edges of the boards into the mill below the feeder, and to complete the formation of the opposite bottom portions of the feed-pan, to provide for an even spreading'and distribution of the stock, the upper feed-board sections 28, adjacent to the central partition-boards 26, have fitted on their upper sides a series of short feed-strips 44, arranged transversely of the feed-board sections 2S and longitudinally of the feed-pan. The short feed-strips 44 on each feed board section 2S are regularly spaced apart and are of an inverted-V shape to prevent stock from clinging thereto, said strips being also tapered or narrowed toward their front ends to provide wider or flared spaces between the front ends of said strips directly7 at the upper edges of the boards 27, which iiared spaces between the front ends of the strips 44 provide for a spreading of the stock onto the upper portions of the boards 27 and at the same time preventing the stock from choking between the said strips.

The vibrating feed-pan 3 receives the stock therein at opposite sides of the central vertical partition-board 2G thereof through the short depending feed boxes or chutes 45. The short depending feed boxes or chutes 45 are arranged transversely within the casing and are of a length substantially agreeing with the width of the feed-pan between its opposite sides, and said depending feed-boxes are arranged so as to have their lower open sides project within the Lipper portion of the feed-pan at both sides of the central vertical partition-board 2G thereof. The upper open sides of the feed boxes or chutes, which are fitted to the under side of the top of the casing,are arranged under the top feed-openin gs 4G, formed in the top of the casing at the bottom of the hopper-box 47, mount-ed on top of the casing directly over the said top feedopenings. The hopperbox 47 is provided within the bottom thereof with a central transverse pointed dividing board 48, arranged between the two openings 46 and allowing the stock to freely enter both of said feed-openings and the feed boxes or chutes directly thereunder, and when the feed is employed for runningl two different kinds of stocks the hopper-box 47 has arranged therein a central vertical partition-board 49, (illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) which serves to divide the interior of the hopper-box into two compartments, one respectively for each kind of stock. rlhe said hopper-box 47 receives the material or stock to be fed to the mill in the ordinary mannerand is preferably provided in its opposite sides with suitable glass doors 50 for the purposes of access and inspection.

The flow of stock over the opposite bottom portions of the vibrating feed-pan 8 is automatically regulated by means of the self-adjusting feed-regulatin g gates 5l, arranged to Work within opposite portions of the feed-pan, directly over the bottom of the pan, and below the short depending feed boxes or chutes 45. Each feed-regulating gate 5l is arranged to work directly below the front wall or side of the feed box or chute, immediately thereabove, and has attached toits outer side near opposite ends the lowerends of the gate-arms 52. The gate-arms 52, which are rigidly attached to the outer side of each automatic feed-regulating gate, extend above the upper edges of the gate and are provided at their upper ends with the collars 53, secured on a horizontal gate-hanger shaft 54 by means of the set-screws 55, mounted Vin the collars 53 and impinging on the hanger-shaft 54. The hanger-shaft 54 for each of the regulatinggates is arranged within a longitudinal shaftrecess 56, formed within the front wall of the feed box or chute immediately above the gate, and the opposite ends of the said shaft are loosely journaled in the bearing-boxes 57, secured to the front wall of the said feed box or chute at the opposite ends thereof to provide for journaling the shaft on the front wall of the feed box or chute. At a pointintermediate of its ends the gate-hanger roekshaft 54 for each regulating-gate has adjustably secured thereon, by means of the setscrew 58, the sleeve 59, having a forwardlyprojected socket GO, in which is detachably secured by means of the set-screw 6l, mounted at one side of the socket 60, a short rod arm 6l, the outer end of which arm loosely carries a link-hook 62, to which is detachably connected the upper end of a retractile spring 63, the lower end of which spring is connected at G4 to an adj usting-arm 65, provided at one end with a collar 66, adjustably secured on a pendent supporting-rod G7 by means of the set-screw 68, mounted in one side of the collar 66. The supporting-rod 67 is detachably secured at its upper end in a socketplate 69, fastened to the under side of the flat top of the casing l.

The retractile spring 63 normally rocks the hanger-shaft 54 in a direction to hold the feedregulating gate 5l in vertical alinement with and directly below the front wall of the feed box or chute immediately thereabove, and in this position the upper portions of the gatearms 52 are held against the front wall of the feed box or chute below the recess 66, and thereby serve to limit the inward movement of the gate 5l and prevent the gate from closing down onto the bottom of the feed-pan and scouring the same when the feeder is running empty, as will be understood by those skilled in the art.

Each of the normally-spring-closed feedregulating gates 5l at opposite sides of the central partition-board 26 of the feed-pan has extended from its upper edge and at the rear thereof an inclined back pressure-board 70, which is preferably narrower than the gate proper, 5l, and is disposed at such an angle thereto as to extend directly under and in IOO IIO

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line with the feed box or chute immediately above the gate, so as to receive thereon the direct weight and pressure of the stock as it is fed into the said feed box or chute. The ostanding rearwardly-inclined back pressure-board of each regulating-gate is provided with a beveled lower edge 71 to allow the stock to freely work thereunder and has adj ustably fitted to its inner side an adjustable gage-Slat 7 2, also provided with a lower beveled edge 73, which coperates with the beveled edge 7l, so as to present no sharp edges to the stock which works under the boards 70 toward the gate proper, 51. The gage-Slat 72 is provided at intervals with transversely-disposed slots 7 3a, which receive the clamp-bolts 7 4, fitted in the back board 70 and carrying thumb-nuts 74a, impinging on the lon gitudinally-slotted clamp-plates 75, secured to one side of the slat 72 directly over the said slots 73a. The clamp-plates 75 are provided at their upper ends with the fingerflanges 76, which are exposed through the elongated hand-hole 77, formed in the gate proper, 5l, said hand-hole permitting the iingers of the hand to be readily7 introduced therethrough, so as to grasp the finger-anges 76 to provide for adjusting the slats 72 on the boards 70 after the thumb-nuts 741-d have been loosened, and when each slat 72 has been adjusted so as to project the desired distance beyond the lower edge of the back board 70 the said slat is secured tight in its adjusted position by tightening the nuts 74a against the clamp-plates 7,5.

Each regulating-gate 5l carries upon its inner side avertically-adjustable evener-block 78, which evener-block rests dat against the inner side of the gate proper and is provided with a wide rounded lower side 7 9, curved on the arc of a circle and lying directly over the corrugated bottom board 27 of the feed-pan to provide for an even and well-distributed flow of the stock under the gate before it escapes onto that portion of the bottom board beyond the gate. The adjustable flow-evening block 78 for each feed-regulating gate is centrally cut away, as at 80, to uncover the hand-hole 77 and has fitted thereto oppositely-located adjusting-bolts 8l, projecting through vertically-disposed slots 82 in the gate proper and carrying thumb-nuts 83, manipulated from the front side of the gate, to provide for securing the block in any adjusted position so as to project the proper distance below the lower edge of the gate proper, as the requirements of the feeding may demand.

In the operation of the machine the stock to be fed to the mill accumulates within the feed boxes or chutes directly on top of the back pressure-board of the feed-regulating gates, and irrespective of the speed of the vibration of the feed-pan it will be obvious that when a sufficient amount of stock has accumulated the weight thereof will operate to open the feed-regulating gates to relieve the pressure, after which the gates will close under the iniiuence of the springs 63 and will allow a regular and even liow of stock to be worked thereunder by the vibrations of the feed-pan. At'all times it is necessary to have the evener-blocks 78, carried by the gates, adjusted so as to be out of contact with the corrugated inclined bottom boards 27 immediately therebelow, so that when the gates are completely closed or at the limit of their inward movement the same will not scour or ride on the bottom of the feed-pan, and since the gates are suspended from shafts arranged above and in vertical alinement therewith it will be obvious that the same will readily adjust themselves to the varying conditions of the stock and will permit the latter to be readily worked thereunder in regulated quantities, while foreign substances of any size will raise the gates and freely pass out into the end mote-boxes, after which the gates will quickly resume their normal closed positions. In further explanation of the operation of the regulating-gates it will be noted that the inclined back pressure-boards 7O of the regulating-gates operate to prevent an overiiow of stock, for it will be obvious that in the operation of the gates the gates proper or front portions thereof will open away from the bottom boards of the feed-pan, while the inclined back pressure-boards 70 move downward toward the bottom boards of the feed-pan, and as the gates continue to move outward the said back boards close down farther onto the bottom of the feed-pan and serve to cut off superliuous flow of stock, and by the adjustment of the gage-slats 76 the amount of iiow permitted to pass under the evener-blocks 78 may be readily controlled. It will therefore be obvious that the back boards 70 and the gage-slats 72 regulate the amount of How irlog respective of the adjustment of the evenerblocks 78, carried by the gates proper; but in feeding mills there should be always a sufficient amount of stock passed through the feeder to overflow the mills or feed as much thereto as the rolls can take without choking the rolls. As soon as any extra accumulations or overflow of stock has been worked under the regulating-gates the said gates automatically resume their normal closed positions. Ordinarily after the stock has passed under and beyond the back boards 70 of the gates the same backs up against the front section of the gates or the gate proper until the required amount of stock lies on top of the back boards 70 to overbalance the tension of the springs 63, and thereby cause the whole gate to rise up over the corrugated bottom boards 27 and allow the stock to work itself out, and in order to produce an even Iiow beneath the gates to suit dierent conditions of stock the evener-blocks 78 are adjusted to vary the distance therebetween and the corrugated bottom boards of the pan. Whatever the adjustment of the various parts of the gates may be the vibrations of the pan will always carry an even iow of stock there- III lIO

under, inasmuch as the stock cannot resist the tendency to pass out under the gates, as the vibrations of the pan are inward and outward, with a tendency to move slightly upward, thereby causing the stock to work against the rounded lower sides 79 of the evener-block, and in securing this operation only a slow motion of the feed-pan is required.

Changes in the forni, proportion, and the minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention,what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-n l. In an automatic feeder for mills, the casing, a longitudinally-vibrating feed-pan arranged within the casing, swinging springmetal hanger-straps secured at their lower ends to the corners of said pans, angled clampplates secured in pairs to the inner sides of the casing and provided therein with slots, adjustable supporti 11g-blocks fitted on the upper ends of said straps, bolts passed transversely, through said blocks and the upper ends of the spring-straps therein and having their opposite ends working in the slots of said angled clamp-plates, and an adjusting screw-and-nut connection with each of said blocks, substantially as set forth.

2. In an automatic feeder for mills, an openbottomcd casing, a vibrating feed-pan supported to swing longitudinally within the casing and provided with inclined imperforate bottom boards declining from both sides of the center thereof, and depressed step eXtensions at thelower edges of said bottom boards, and removable separating-sieves arranged over said step extensions beyond the lower edges of said inclined bottom boards and provided with inner and outer frame-strips the inner strips being detachably secured to the step extensions immediately below the lower edges of the inclined bottom boards, and the outer strips having at their terminals short plates 35, detachably secured to the sides of the pan directly at the ends thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. In an automatic feeder for mills, an openbottomed casing, a longitudinally-vibrating feed-pan suspended within the casing and provided with opposite parallel sides, a central transverse partition-board, opposite inclined bottom boards having transverselycorrugated faces formed with short feedgrooves in the ridges thereof, depressed invclined distributingboards arranged in front of and below the plane of said inclined bottom boards, and separating-sieves arranged over said distributing-boards, substantially as set forth.

-l.-. In an automatic feeder for mills, the casing, a longitudinally vibrating or swinging feed-pau suspended within the casing and having a central upright partition-board, opposite sharply-inclined bottoni boards provided with a longitudinaliy-corrugated surface having grooves intersecting the corrugations, upper feed-board sections arranged directly adjacent to and at both sides of the partition -board, and inclined distributingboards disposed below the plane of and beyond the corrugated bottom boards, said distribu ting-boards being provided with a series of longitudinal, wide fiat riftles, substantially as set forth.

5. In an automatic feeder for mills, a casing, a longitudinally vibrating or swinging feedpan suspended within the casing and having a central upright partition-board, opposite sharply-inclined bottom boards provided with a longitudically-corrugated surface, having grooves intersecting the corrugations, upper feedeboard sections arranged directlyadjacent to and at both sides of the partition-board and provided on their upper sides with a series of short feed-strips having flared spaces between their front ends, said feed-strips being of an inverted-V shape and tapered or narrower between their front ends, to form flared spaces therebetween, a ri flied distributing-board arranged below the plane of and extending beyond the front lower edges of said inclinedl bottom board, and means for feeding stock into the pan at both sides of the partitionboard.

6. In an automatic feeder for mills, the casing, a vibrating feed-pan suspended within the casing and provided with an inclined bottom board, a feed box or chute arranged witl1 in the top of the casing over the pan, and a self-adj usting feed-regulati ng gate suspended from the front side of said feed box or chute and provided with an adjustable evener-block working' over said inclined bottom board and having a widened lower rounded side, substantially as set forth.

7. In an automatic feeder for mills, an openbottom casing, a longitudinally-vibrating feed-pan having an inclined bottom board and a feed-board section at the upper edge of said bottom board, a stationary feed box or chute projecting into the pau directly above said feed-board section, and a self-adjusting feedregulating gate suspended from the front side of said feed box or chute, and provided with an adjustable evener-block having a wide lower side 79 and working over the inclined bottom board, and at its inner side with an inclined back board disposed directly below the lower open side of the feed box or chute and intersecting the vertical plane of the latter, substantially as set forth.

8. In an automatic feeder of the class described, the casing, a longitudinally-vibrat ing feed-pan suspended within the casing and having an inclined bottom board, a stationary feed box or chute depending within the pan above the higher portion of the inclined bottom board, a self-adjusting feed-regulating gate suspended from the front side of the feed box or chute and provided at its rear side with an offstanding angularly-disposed IIO pressure back board arranged below the lower open side of the feed box or chute, a springadj usted hanger for said gate, a gage-Slat adjustably fitted to one side of said pressure back board, and an evener-block adj ustably fitted to one side of the gate proper and havinga Wide rounded lower side '79, substantially as set forth.

9. In an automatic feeder of the class described, the casing, a vibrating feed-pan suspended within the casing and having an inclined bottom board, a Stationary feed box or chute depending within the pan above the higher portion of the inclined bottom board, a self-adjusting feed-regulating gate suspended from the front side of the feed box or chute and provided with a hand-hole and at its inner side with an offstanding inclined back board disposed below the lower open side of the feed box or chute, a spring-adjusted hanger for the gate, a gage-Slat slidably itted to one side of the back board, thumb-nut and bolt-clamping devices for securing said slat in position and exposed for manipulation through said hand-hole,and a rounded evenerblock adjustably fitted at one side of the gate proper and working over said inclined bottom board, substantially as set forth.

l0. In an automatic feeder for mills, acasing, a longitudinally vibrating or swinging feed-pan suspended Within the casing and having a central upright partitionboard, oppositely-inclined bottom boards provided with alongitudinally-corrugated surface having grooves intersecting the corrugations, upper feed-board sections arranged directly adjacent to and atboth sides of the partitionboard and having feed-strips thereon, a riffied distributing-board arranged below the plane and extending beyond the front lower edges of said inclined bottom boards, and means for'feeding stock into the pan at both sides of the partition-board.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

Y JOHN PETER VEHRER.

Witnesses:

ALEXANDER WANNER, HENRY KRENZKE. 

